Shima Beigi published her book Mindful Smart Cities: rethinking smart cities with Mindfulness Engineering. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the launch event of the book is going to be online and live. It will take place on Monday, 15 June 2020,…
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Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger created the video art work GAIA 5.0 – A holographic Image Ambience (the picture above shows the so-called hyper sphere of planet Earth) with Lydia Lunch (Sound & narration) in collaboration with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather…
Filmmaker Sophie Huber-Lachner wrote a reflection on her documentary project “Lernen lernen”. Pros and cons are addressed. See the paper here. The film start is expected this year.
Our member, Peter Fleissner, who worked on simulation models on the current endemic in European countries and runs currently a blog with daily updates of the situation in Austria, will hold a webinar on the pandemic. The webinar will be…
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Because of Corona crisis conditions, the Vienna Digital Humanism initiative postponed its planned workshop at the TU Wien to autumn this year. Instead, an online workshop with a different programme will be held on 14 May 2020, at 14:00 CEST,…
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Shima Beigi, in charge of the Resilience for VUCA World 2020 Initiative at the Center Leo Apostel for Multidisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, invites to an online round table on what societies ought to learn from the experience of the…
Peter Fleissner‘s simulation model shows that Austria is on a good track to starve out the SARS-CoV-2, if the lifting of the countermeasures will not be too soon. According to his model, the development of the epidemic is approaching the…
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Peter Fleissner, expert in social cybernetics, considers a new strategy for dealing with the virus in Austria. According to his simulation model – that so far has been fitting well the actual numbers of infected people (see here) –, in…
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Our partner, the German Platform of computer scientists for peace and social responsibility (FIfF), published an impact assessment of the Corona app for tracking the mobile phone users’ movement data. Shall in the name of health reasons a big assault…
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In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life…
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